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Department Graduate Awards
Bateman Prize in Number Theory
The Bateman Prize is awarded to a graduate student in recognition of outstanding research in number theory. The prize was initiated in 1999 by the department Number Theory Group, chaired by Professor Bruce Berndt. Most of the funds were donated by Professors Bateman and John Selfridge, a former member of the UIUC Department of Mathematics and founder of the Number Theory Foundation, with additional support from former students and current faculty members.The prize is named for Professor Paul T. Bateman whose research interests are in analytic number theory, with a particular career-long interest in sums of squares, the topic of his doctoral dissertation. Professor Bateman received his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1946. He joined the University of Illinois mathematics faculty in 1950, served as head of the department from 1965-1980, and became an emeritus professor in 1989. Twenty students received their Ph.D. under his direction.
Bateman Prize Recipients
- 2009 Byungchan Kim
- 2008 Sun Kim
- 2007 Samuel M. Kadziela and Maosheng Xiong
- 2006 O-Yeat Chan
- 2004 Hamza Yesilyurt
- 2003 Song Heng Chan
- 2002 James McLaughlin and Kevin O'Bryant
- 2001 Mark Bauer
- 2000 Yifan Yang
- 1999 Youn-Seo Choi
Irving Reiner Memorial Award
The Irving Reiner Memorial Award was established in memory of Professor Irving Reiner by his family in 1988, with the support also of colleagues and friends. Professor Reiner, a long-time member of the University of Illinois Department of Mathematics, was a leader in the field of integral representation theory. The Reiner Prize is awarded each spring to one or more graduate students in recognition of outstanding scholastic achievement in the field of algebra.Professor Reiner received his Master's and Ph.D. from Cornell University. After Cornell, he spent a year at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, where he met and worked with Professor L.K. Hua.
He joined the University of Illinois Department of Mathematics faculty in 1948. During his 38 years at Illinois, he wrote 107 research papers, survey papers, books, and other scholarly works, with many collaborators. He directed the thesis work for 17 students. His classic and influential book on representation theory, written with Professor Charles W. Curtis, was published in 1962. During his career, he received many awards for his outstanding work, among these a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Distinguished Alumnus Award from Brooklyn College, and a NATO Senior Fellowship. When Professor Reiner died at age 62, a colleague wrote, "We have been enriched by knowing him."
Reiner Award Receipients
- 2009 Jason McCullough
- 2008 Isaac Goldbring
- 2007 Shivi S. Bansal
- 2006 Nadya Markin and Lucas Sabalka
- 2005 Jinjia Li
- 2004 Michael Bush
- 2003 David Murphy and Amador Martin-Pizzaro
- 2002 Bogdan Petrenko
- 2001 Donghi Lee and Donghoon Hyeon
- 2000 Mark Bauer
- 1999 Miriam Kantorovitz
- 1998 Yu-Fen Wu and Darrin Doud
- 1997 Claudia Miller
- 1996 Judy Walker
- 1995 Mark Walker
- 1994 David Ose
- 1993 Abdellatif Laradji
- 1992 Niels Lauritzen
- 1991 Tuval Foguel
- 1990 Hara Charalambous
- 1989 Sunil Gunaratne
- 1988 Harald Ellers
Brahana TA Instructional Award
The Brahana TA Instructional Award was established in 2005 with funding from the H. Roy Brahana Fund. It is presented to graduate teaching assistants for exemplary teaching. A committee of faculty, graduate and undergraduate students determines the winners. Awards are based on classroom observation, comments from students, and a written report by the nominees describing their teaching goals. Two graduate students can be awarded the Brahana TA Instructional Award each year.Brahana TA Instructional Award Recipients
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TA Instructional Awards
The Department TA Instructional Award was established in 1979. It is presented to graduate teaching assistants for exemplary teaching. A committee of faculty, graduate and undergraduate students determines the winners. Awards are based on classroom observation, comments from students, and a written report by the nominees describing their teaching goals. As of 2005, up to two graduate students can be awarded the Department TA Instructional Award each year.Department TA Instructional Award Recipients
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Kuo-Tsai Chen Prize in Mathematics
The Chen Prize was established in 1989 by the family and friends of Professor K.-T. Chen and is awarded in odd-numbered years in recognition of outstanding scholastic achievement by a graduate student whose research interests lie in the area of the relationship between geometry and analysis or the relationship between algebra and analysis.Professor Chen was an outstanding mathematician of international reputation, widely quoted for his contributions to the qualitative theory of ordinary differential equations and to algebraic topology. Professor Chen received his Ph.D. in 1950 from Columbia University. Before joining the University of Illinois mathematics faculty in 1967, he taught at the University of Hong Kong, the Instituto Technologico de Aeronautica in Brazil, and at Rutgers University. Five students completed their Ph.D. under his direction.
Chen Prize Recipients
- 2009 L. Mercredi Chasman
- 2005 Jae-Seong Cho
- 2003 Xiaosheng Li
- 2001 Lia Petracovici and Donghoon Hyeon
- 1999 Matthias Aschenbrenner
- 1997 Massoud Amini
- 1995 Jeffrey Ho
- 1993 Karin Johnsgard
- 1991 Allen Rogers
- 1989 Hobum Kim
Dr. Lois M. Lackner Mathematics Fellowship
The Dr. Lois M. Lackner Mathematics Fellowship was established in 2007 through a generous gift by Dr. Lois Lackner-Strong, a University of Illinois alumna with degrees in the teaching of mathematics and in education. This fellowship is for female graduate students in mathematics, with preference given to students of Czechoslovakian descent.Lackner Fellowship Recipients
- 2008, 2009 Ida Svejdarova
- 2007 Jana Marikova
Franz Hohn and J.P. Nash Award
The Hohn-Nash Award is given to two graduate students in recognition of outstanding scholarship and promise in applied mathematics.This award was established in 1997 by Gene Golub to honor Professors Franz Hohn and John Purcell "Jack" Nash, pioneers in the field of applied and computational mathematics and dedicated to the teaching profession, with additional support from the friends and families of Professors Hohn and Nash.
Gene H. Golub is the Fletcher Jones Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University where he has been a faculty member since 1962. He received his B.S. (1953), A.M. (1954), and Ph.D. (1959), all from the University of Illinois, and in 1991, the university awarded him an honorary degree. He is a member of both the National Academy of Engineering and the National Academy of Science, and is a Fellow of the AAAS. Golub donated the money for this award in memory of Professors Hohn and Nash.
Franz Edward Hohn received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois in 1940. After teaching at the Universities of Arizona and Maine and at Guilford College, he joined the University of Illinois faculty in 1948 and remained a valued member of the department of Mathematics until his death in 1977. Professor Hohn served as graduate supervisor for mathematics from 1968-1970 and was Associate Dean of the Graduate College from 1970-1972. He was a specialist in applied mathematics and automata theory and the author of a widely used textbook on elementary matrix algebra.
John Purcell Nash received his Ph.D. from Rice Institute in 1940. After teaching at the University of Notre Dame, he joined the Radiation Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He became a research physicist for the Kimberly-Clark Corporation in Neenah, Wisconsin, before returning to Illinois in 1948. Nash helped develop the Illiac I and was a Professor of Applied Mathematics from 1950-1957. After his career at Illinois, he became vice president of Lockheed Missile Space Corp., and assistant general manager of the Space Systems Division. He died in 1972.
Hohn-Nash Award Recipients
- 2008-09
- Jonah Sinick
- Kostyantyn Slutskyy
- 2007-08
- Jennifer Vandenbussche
- 2006
- Rekha Santhanam
- Shichang Song
- 2005
- Maosheng Xiong
- 2004
- Bogdan Petrenko
- 2003
- Seog-Jin Kim
- Eric Landquist
- 2002
- Michael Bush
- 2001
- Thomas Kuhnt
- Kwang Shin
- 2000
- Jenny Steichen, 1st Place
- Mark Bauer, 2nd Place tie
- Tao Jiang, 2nd Place tie
- 1999
- Will Galway
- Doug Kuhlman
- 1998
- Darrin Doud
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